Anna Maria Bennett

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AMB 's novels are remarkably bold for the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century (as well as skilful) in their handling of controversial sexual and social themes (like class issues, and sexual abuse). Her works, however, grew increasingly long-winded, perhaps under the pressure of the need to earn. They are a virtual anthology of the favoured motifs of the sentimental novel, yet they are also rich in almost Dickensian satire.

Milestones

About 1750

Anna Maria Evans (later AMB ) was born at Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.
Fuller, J. F. “A Curious Genealogical Medley”. Miscellanea Genealogica.
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8 July 1797

On this date, advertisements said, AMB published her most popular novel, The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors, with the Minerva Press .
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
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April 1806

AMB published, with the Minerva Press , what seems to be her last novel, the six-volume Vicissitudes Abroad; or, The Ghost of My Father.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
337

12 February 1808

AMB died at Brighton; nothing is known of her last years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

About 1750

Anna Maria Evans (later AMB ) was born at Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.
Fuller, J. F. “A Curious Genealogical Medley”. Miscellanea Genealogica.
244
She came from the Welsh lower middle class; later she did labouring-class work, until she became a kept mistress: a step up financially, but hardly in social terms.

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